The Sun. — London, England, 1818-12-17 00:00:00

SEIIP NEWS. PENZANCE, DEC. 14.—Arrived off rids port a packet, supposed to he the Duke of Kent, from Lisbon. The Emily is sunk near the shore, and h FIS 1 0 feet water on 'her deck at low water. The hatches were got off yesterday, when some pun cheons of rum and other articles floated out. If the weather continues moderate, it is expected the ,greater part of the cargo ‘s. ill be saved. PoßTsmouTß, DEC. 6.—Arrived his Majesty's brig !farrier from Bermuda, last from, Plymouth ; pldeetl totter quarantine ; his Majesty's brig Ro tart() horn a cruise. FAcarouTn, Dec. 14.—Sailed the Speedy packet for America, and Diana packet for the Brazils, both with mails ; his Majesty's ship Mersey, Captain COLLIER, for America. Arrived the Duke Tent packet with a mail from Lisbon ; sailed the sth inst. CAPTURE OF A DUTCH SMUGGLER. His 'Majesty's schooner IMuscodovat, com 11/landed by Lieutenant GarFFITHs, and stationed tiff the Irish coast, observed on Wednesday last, a foreign vessel lying off a shOrt distance from Lam bny ; the Muscodovat immediately gave chace, and the foreign vessel tacked about, and crowded all tail to escape.; after a chace of five. hours and a. half, she was captured near Liverpool, and found to be the Thetis cutter, of and from Flushing, tarrying eighteen nine pounders, having 20 men on board, commanded by Capt. Andires King ; dur ing the chase, the Muscodovat fired into rise cut ter, and one man, who was up in the rigging, re ceived a ball in the breast, fell overboatd, and 'as lost ; the remainder of the crew instantly Iver t t below into the cabin, and no exertion of the Captain could prevail - on any of them to return ~p oti deck except a. cabin boy and the carpen ter. the latter of whom received a ball in the left arm, whilst working at Ihe helm.: the Captain had then to take the helm, but having no assiAt *nee hut the cabin boy to steer the vessel, was tarried so rapidly before the wind, that he tearert running foul of some of the banks on the Welch coast ; he therefore deemed it prudent to surrender. Lieutenant Griffiths states, that he flhietved nearly 100 casks thrown overboard dur- I"K the the ; forty casks were found on board, "elf Containing about seven gallons of Holland geneva, mixed with salt water. Lieut.Griflith ar tived• with his prize in the port of Dublin on T. su l y morning, and she has been laid up in the C ostom.house Dock, with marine centinels stati ruled on board her; the Captain apt! crew were on Saturday morning brought up its custody:to thellead Police Office, where Mr. Waller, the Solicitor for the Revenue, attended, and prodticed before the Atiostrates the several Acts of Parliament in force affecting the prisoners ; it appeared by the 811 t 76., that all persons found within one it gu e Of the coast, in armed foreign vessels, not IQ(? passengers, were e ac h li a bl e to a pena l ty of . 1 mail the papnent of which, they are to re ti'din in prison ; the law in this cas e b e i ng warrants Were accordingly made out ; an d : ( 'C4plainAnd his clew sent on Saturdayevening, hsachney carriages, under escort of the Horse c'ii"e, to Kilmainham•Gaol. TbeCaptain of the eil ter.appears to be ati intelligent young man, a n i "t ive of Amsterdam, but speaks Engiish remark t)lY well ; several of-the sailors are men of ver ur ge y size, —(Dublin J ourna l, D ec. 14,) CUSTOMS LIST. -Entered Inwards, Dec. I6.—Nept onus, Borgerding, Ant *err) ; Prosperous, Lingbatn, do. ; Alleis, Honlton, Arch t'gel ; Hermes, Bond, do.; Benson, Brydor., Riga; Johanna 44-argaretta, Abs, Stia!sund ; Aurora, Erdtwan, Lubeck ; I ., 4ine rva, ninth, Rostock; Catharina Margaretta, Permit), ".; Three Brothers, Spaull, Lisbon ; Eolus, Allison, Chris. ), tia "; Ttitoti, Walker, Dantzic; Hessle, Musgra ve , Peters 17INif ; Au rora, G reen, Stettin; Wrote Jantje, Kuyt, D or dt ; ... ril: ""tr Young, Cape of Good Hope. . 4;nl "ed Ouwards, Dec. 16.—Sarah Christiana, Young, rarriiten; John, King, Jamaica; Georgiarra, Warren, Ber ; Atlantic, Allen, Baltimore; Duke of York, Fryer, Rot etdnpt ; Frances and Eliza, Storer, Madeira; Duticombe, 16 '4hr ; Roza de Japia, Mendez, Gijon. Cleared Ontleards, Dee. W.—Flora, Cooper, Antwerp; Ir.!'oza Japia, Mendez, Gijon; ‘Vashington, Forman, New "'k ; Adamant, Smith, Jamaica ; Frances Ann Cumminst t L eg h orn; 4 Pe t ., , i ("' ; Union, Clench, Pylades, Will son , ''vah""ll; Annesley, Colvin, St. Micha e l' s; M ary, Sh aw, A lt:x111w • na. at ,lie COURT.—This morning, he opening of the Coutt, Mr. WILSON was as King's Counsel, and took his seat vcot di ugly. CAPTAIN Roes OF THE ISABELLA DISCOVERY " 111 - --An a b su rd bi ographical sketch of this zi n ll' k an has lately appeared i n a L on d on . 11i L ' Ilhich it is ignorantly or maliciously he was born of mean parents in Reli ct "bite, and received a very inferior education. t' jali t ain Ross is of a very respectable family in ty, i ' s . ,,' w . 4 Y•i, Hit , father, the Rev. ANDREw Ross, nr• alituster of the parish of Inch, add proprietor 40 1 , i e estate of Balsan ()eh, in Kirkham. A 11 0 t "et of Captain Ross, Major - General ANDREW a distinguish e d O ff i cer , di e d some years . 6), whet, in command at Alicant.— (Edinburgh , Irt r "dit y a Court of Directors was held at the urlia House, when Captain C. GRAHAM, o pr-;!‘iii)i William Pitt, took leave of the Court , , li j , (1 " ( f ! ‘ "! to departing for St. Helena, l3encoolen, .11111 a. Al L iz tk a , -nen IN HERTFORDSHIRE.—We understand 1 16; "be inhabi t ants of liroxb ourne , i n Hertford e' h ave offered a reward of fifty guineas for th, a-Pl)lehension of the monsters who murdered ~,i ' l` ll l, lttulate J ohn Cooper, on the Hertford (21, , ou his return from Spitalfields Market to ik tit ""f°lll , on the night of the 3d November -• FOR THE. SUN. MISS KELLY. Mw. EDITOR,---The silence of the Newspapers io general,. on this subject,. is a plain proof that they are not animated -by • that public spirit to which they pretend, • for otherwise they would resolutely come forward in support of an excellent young Actress, who pos sesses talents which have most deservedly ren dered her a favourite with the town. Yet is she thrown upon tl►e world, either to wander front her family and connexions, and to receive inadequate requital for her efforts in the country, or to wait in unprofitable vacuity till the opening of the ENULISH OPERA HOUSE, the seasons of which are annually abridged by the 'protracted performances of the Muter Theatres. I am a decided enemy to all play-house riots ; butt I conceive that the Public have a right to demand of the Proprietors of both Theatres why Miss KELLY is not engaged ? The offer of an engagement to her from Drury. Lane was made, if I am not mistaken, dur ing the time when that Theatre was under an Injunction from the Court of Chancery, and who could tell when, or whether, it might have been annulled ? Was Miss KELLY, who lives by the constant exertion of her talents, to decline all other engagements that might offer, and wait - - • the uncertain, and, perhaps, distant issue of a Chancery suit ?—Your Correspondent of this day has put two questions - to the Theatres, which. respect for the public ought' to induce them both • 'to answer. If the Sub-Committee, when they offered terms to Miss KELLY, requiring her to confine-her exertions wholly to Drury-Lane, knew that she was under engagements which precluded her from accepting thents the offer was an " unreal mockery."—But why did they not modify their terms, and, propose to her a less salary for a more limited performance at their Theatre ? Such at offer would at least have shewn sincerity on their part, and respect for the Public, in a dispo sition to gratify them with the talents of a favourite Actress. As to the clause in the Patents, by which the Governor of one Theatre is prohibited from i engaging a Performer who has quitted the other, till after the expiratio'n of a year, that is only con ditional, and depends on the consent and approba tion of -the parties. Th'e matter then conies , to these questions. Does Drury-Lane Theatre refuse to engage Miss KELLY, unless she commits a brea , Ai of law and honour, by a violation of engagements into which she had previously entered, or will it persevere in denying her the opportunity of obtaining a livelihood, by employing her talents at the other Thea tre ? Another question may also be proper ly put to Covent-Garden Theatre. Will it en gage Miss KELLY, if Drury. Lane Theatre gives its consent, as it ought in justice, liberality, and common humanity to. do, to the completion of the engagement into which, according to the statement in her letter, she had entered ? I am aware, Mr. Editor, that Proprietors of 'Theatres, who must have purchased at a vast expense, and 'must be exposed also to continual heavy disburse ments, with uncertain profits, ought to be secured against the arrogance, caprice, and rapacity of popular Performers, but the case before us neither implies nor insinuates any such charges. against this meritorious young Actress, whose only fault seems to be a fixed determination to suffer no temptation of pecuniayy advantage to' indoce her to violate engagements which ,she had pre viously contracted. I trust, Mr. Editor, tha't the . Proprietors of b o th Th eatres w ill re fl ect on the situation of this deserving young woman and ex cellent actress, and on the opinions and feelings of mankind on. the subject, and that they will immediately enter into some amicable arrange-' ment by which she may be engaged at one House or the other, and the Public again be gratified by the exertion of her talents. New Hurnanus, Dec. 16. PUBLIUS. SPARRING.---The Fives' Court was well attend ed on '1 nesday, for the benefit of Carter. Martin mounted the stage in the Court, with his bead tied up, and addressed the Amateurs as follows : " Turner has challenged me in my absence, and I accept it, to fight him for 100 guineas, at his own time, and my money is ready, at Burn's, the Rising Sun, %'indtnill-street.'• The match will no doubt he made ; and one between Carter and Sutton, the Black, is also spoken of, as Carter will fight as low as 501. WAGER. - Yesterday afriqtroon, a match of a novel nature was decide•ci on the Waterloo Bridge road : a wager of a {l. note was laid between two men, who were drinking in the Antelope, in White liars-yard, on these conditions :—One was to carry another man on his back, and, thus encum bered, betted that he would run 50 yards in less time than the other, without any incumbrance, would run 100 ! They started about two o'clock, to the amusement of a numerous concourse Of spectators, and the match was won by him who carried no burthen, but with some difficulty. CAUTION TO PARENTS.—On Tuesday night an Inquisition was taken at the Turf Tap, back of St. Gcorge's Hospital, on view of the body of Mary Ann Lennard, a girl of about five years old. It appeared in evidence, that the parents of the deceased lived in Jew's-row, Chelsea, On Sun day afternoon they went out for an evening's excursion, leaving the deceased and another child in the room. The children were at play by the fire-side, when a spark communicated to the de ceased's dress, and in an instant set it in a blaze. The neighbours, on hearing her screams, imme diately came to her assistance, and extinguished the flames ; but she was so shockingly burned that it was found necessary to send her to the Hospit a l. She only survived till ten o'clock the same evening. Verdict—' Accidentally burnt to death." CHILD•DROPPING.—A few evenings back, about six o'clock, a male child, about six weeks old, was left exposed at the door of Islington Work house. It was dressed in an old cambric frock, flannel petticoat, cambric cap, and wrapped in an old blanket. It was conveyed to !be work-house, to be taken care of till proper steps are taken for the apprehension of the mother, P 0 E T 11 Y. A LITTLE SONG, In Defence of One whose Persnnal Charms had been some wht-.' found fault with. "A lie—upon my soul a lie !"—SHAKSPEARS. Now, as to her Eyes, Your speech not applies— 'You swore that their life was all gone, all gone; What could your bead push on, For Such an assertion ? You know that my Love has—but one, but one. /You swore she was thin, Nay, all bone and skin ! Pale, meagre, and dry as a fossil, a fossil; Poo, poo—as for bone, I'll hold she has none, For I look'd in her mouth—not a morsel, a morsel. And then—in her face, You never saw trace Of blushing, you said—O very wrong, very! Why every one knows, That she socially glows, And Ler Nose is as red as a cherry, a cherry. BEPPO. THE SNUFF-TAKER. A PARODY ON THE WOODPECKER. As I sat by the fire, in reflection profound, I thought that my nose I would treat, And I said, if there's snuff in the world to be found, I shall get it in Lundyfoot-street. It was ten—not a sound, hut the striking of clocks, And the snuff-taker tapping his favourite box. So to Lundy's I went, tho' the weather was rough, My sensation with scent to regalc; How busy the shopmen !—some serv'd out the snuff, And some neatly roll'd up pig-tail. Not a sound—all the watchmen were silent as blocks, But the snuff-taker tapping his favourite box. Then I took A long stroll 'mid the cold silent tombs, Anil cried,—Fortune, grant meenough Perhaps I am stinfiiitg my grandmother's bones, Or toy grandfather's coffin, for snuff. It was morn—not a sound, but the crowing of cocks, And the snuff-taker tapping his favourite box. Dublin. OSCAR. REGISTER OF FASHION. ARRIVALS.—EarI and Countess of Galloway, in Hanover square, from Galloway House; R. Williams, Esq. M. P. in Grosvenor-square, from Moore Park, Rickmansworth ; Hon. E. Lygon, M.P. from Northleach ; John Latouclie, Esq.M.P., at. the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, from Brighton; Lady Lee Fleming, at the Brunswick House Hotel, Hanover-square, from the Continent. DEPARTURES .—Earl and Countess of Wahlegrave, frOm the Pulteney Hotel, for Strawberry Hill; the Dowiger Countest! of Galloway, from Davies-street, for Bath ; Sir F. Vane,Bart. for Hastings; Colonel Nesbitt, for Cheltenham. ORDINATION. Sunday last, the Lord Bishop of CHESTER held a Public Ordination in the Cathedral ; previous to which, an excellent and appropriate sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. PEARSON. . . . -• • - The following are the names of th e diff erent Deacons and Priests ordained on the.occasion : DEACONs.—Roger Hesketb Formby, A. B. of Jesus College, Cambridge; John Theobalds ; Joseph Newton, A. B. of St. John's College, Cambridge ; Launcelot Jon. Wilson, Thomas Dixon, Charles Foyshaw, Robert Gibson, A. B. of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge ; William Hodeson, • Joh n R ow l an d son, William Slater, Jolin Wilkinson 'Turner, Joseph Gate, Ed ward Bowman, Blain Mandale. PamsTs.—Janies Addison, Henry Richardson, Robert Studbolnie, Thomas Bligh, A. M. of St. Peter's College, Cambridge ; Robert 'Bradley, Gardnor Baldwin, A. B. of Brasen-nose C.'ollege, Oxford. • SHOCKING DEATH BY •• BuvNING.---Tuesday evening some persons were alarmed on passing through Essex-street, Mile end, by hearing tint cry of '' fire," which continued for a length of time ; at length a woman who occupies an apart ment in that street, on looking through the win dow, saw a mass of flames in an' opposite room. • She ran as fast as possible, and informed the peofile of it, and went np stairs, and on opening the door found an elderly Lady, .who was by herselt in the house, sitting in an arnt chair by the fire, all in a blaze. Several pails of water were thrown over her, and the fistnes were soon extinguished. It appeared tint her husband had just gone out, and she being feeble and unwell, when her clothes caught fire, she was unable to move, and remained in that dreadful situation till assistance arrived, by which time wine parts of her body were burned nearly to a cinder. She was taken to the London Hospital, where every assistance was afforded, but she died in the greatest agony soon after her arrival. _ SHOCKING ACCIDENT -We have often had oc casion to notice the many instances of the dread ful effects of tire, and, the following we record for the caution of patents and others, having the charge of children :—On Thursday, the 3d inst., while the servant and a washerwoman had gone to the cellar, a few paces from the kitchen of Mr. H. D. BRLL, grocer, Poplar-lane, Leith, to get water, one of his sons, a fine pro►nising boy, about three years and a half old, who was accus tomed to rise early, was in the kitchen, about six o'clock in the morning, and although a small stick had been taken several times from him, and hid, he again got bold of it, which he had put into the fire, and touching his night-clothes, set them in a blaze. On feeling the effectb, be • screamed out, when his father leapt out of bed, and caught him in his arms, while the flames - were nearly at his shoulders. The father, whose hands and other parts of his body were scorched, con soled himself with the pleasing idea, that he had saved his boy from being burnt to death. The boy continued, as was supposed, to (lo well, and endured the pain arising from his thigh and left side being burnt, with great patience, until Mon day morning, when the inflammation which had taken place proved fatal, and he diet! about ten o'clock of that forenoon, leaving his patents to lament his untimely fate.---(Edinburgh Courant, Dec. 14.) IRELAND. THE ARMY DUBLIN, DEC. addition to the reoloc ,ions sehiLh have already taken place on This Es tablishment, the Centre, or 'rid(anion , District, is about to be united to the IVestern District, and placed under the command of Major-Gen. Biller head-qUarters Athlone. Th e 96Th Regiment, or .Queen's Own, were disembodied by Major• General O'Lo'nghlin, on "fliorsdav, in the square of the New. Barracks, Limerick. The conduct of the men, while sta tioned there, was highly praiseworthy ; and the gentle deportment_ of the Officers gained tbent general respect. Lieutenant-Colonel M'Carthy, Afajois Howard and iVarburton, Captains Cop ' pinger, Lloyd, and Nash, Lieutenant Briscoe, and several.others were chaired, as a mark of re spect and attachment, which they well deserved, by their uniform attention to the comfort and wel fare of every individual soldier in theßegiment. The 97th were disbanded at Clonniel on Thurs. day; they are replaced by the 57th. Ordered to be reduced on half pay, the Second Lieut.-Colonels of the - following iegiments Carnic, 12th Foot; Machane, 10th; Kelso, 24d; Miles, 38th; White, 18th; KingQcot, 56th; Boss, 66th; Leitch, 'Rd; Humphrey,73d ; Everard, nth ; Lindsey,7Bth ; Symes, 80th ;. Clother, 83d; Sir C. W. Doyle, Knt, 84th; and Warburton, 85th. MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE A few nights ago, a Lady, rather fashionably messed, applied at the house of a person residing ,n one of the streeis of the old town, and begged to know whether she might be acommodated wild a night's lodging ; being replied to in the affirma tive, she was shewn to tier bed, and took pos session accordingly. At an advanced hour in the night, the people of the house were alarthed ly groans, which appeared to'issne from the bed occupied by their fair lodger ; having got up to inquire whether she was ill, they were astonished to find she had been delivered of a fine boy,which, with its mother, were both well. Their amaze ment was only equall e d by their apprehensions, that a circumstance of the kind should have taken place beneath their roof; however, the lady politely assured them, that they need entertain no fears ou that account; that if they could keep the secret they might rest confident she would not reveal it ; that she would indemnify them in any expenses which they might incur, and handsomely reward them for the asylum they had afforded her. The fears of the old couple were in some degree quieted', and they,for three days, continues! to pursue their ordinary Avocations, supplying the invalid Lady with such things as.she demanded, and for which she paid with the greatest liberality. On the fourth morning, the man and his wife bad occasion to go from home at the same time, and the Lady sig nified to a girl .who was in attendance, her wish to get up and dress, for some very urgent business obliged her to go out fora short time; the girl assist ed in equipping her,but her curiosity was much ex ' cited by the great care the Lady took to conceal her face. The girl at length said, she hoped it would not be impertinent to ask why she did so i- 7r the Lady replied, that it . was only natural, so soon after accouchement, that she should endeavour to make herself up warm, to avoid the danger of catching cold. The reply was. reasonable, and the girl was obliged to be satisfied. The Lady went out, leav ing the bantling in bed, with a small sum of mo ney in a black silk ridicule, and has not since been heard of. Conjecture has been on the rack to discover who she•is, but in vain —however, she is supposed to have been from the west end of the town. She paid her. engagements with punctua lity, and strictly kept her promise to the old cou ple of a handsome reward, in leaving there a fine baby-boy.-,-(Limerick Advertiser.) Mademoiselle ELISA GARNERIN, accompanied by M. GARNERIN her father, arrived here some days ago, and announces to the good citizens of this Metropolis the interesting spectacle of au ascent in the balloon with a decent by the para chute : she has already, She says, made 14 suc cessful experiments, whicl► ought to overbalance a recent failure. In consequence of two marriHg. , s which took place not long ago, in Lancashife e not far from Oldham, a very curious alliance is formed. A Gentleman married a Lady, whose brother, soon after, married her husband's (laugh t er, by a former wife., In the course of dine, each party had a child ; the former a daughter, the latter a son ; therefore, the first -mentioned lady is mwher to her brother, sister to her daughter, and grand• mother to her nephew ; her little daughter is niece to her sister, aunt to her cousin, and sister to her uncle; the young man is brother to his fa ther and mother, son to his sister, uncle to his wife, and brother to his niece ; hii wile is sister to her fat her and mother, daughter to her sister, niece to her husband, and aunt to her sister; his little boy is giandson to his aunt, the older lady, and cousin to his aunt the little girl.—(Leeds Intelli gencer - Wednesday afternoon, an Irishman of the name of John Docharty went into a public-house in Havannah-street, Glasgow, and getting Is. worth of whisky, tendered one of the forged notes of the Aberdeen Commercial Banking Company. He was seized and sent to the Police Office. While the officers were searching him there, lee dropped another ; and, intending to conceal it, lie eovered it with his foot, and endeavoured, by. dra wing his foot along the floor, to place it out of sight. The circumstance generally held as a proof of the pass ing the note, knowing it to be forged—asking change while the tenderer has silver—was not wanting in this instance ; for, when the prisoner was searched, 2s. were found in his pockets.— (Greenock ildvertizer, Dec. 11.) The stone in the bladder extracted from the patient in Winchester County Hospital, last week, weighed fourteen Ounces. t»easuicti nine inches in its smallest circumference, and nearly eleven in its largest 1 The painful and difficult operation was witnessed by a large assemlila 4 e of profes sional gentlemen. A case of aneurism, of the Carotid artery, also °centred in' t:►at Hospital, a few weeks ago ; in which the artery was successfully tied, and a cure thereby effected of a disease, which must othertvie have been fatal. It is only within a few year 3, and in a few cases, that this very nice oferAtion has been attempted. r~ re 1